THE 20th edition of Australia’s biggest bike race starts on Tuesday with the 145km Stage 1 from Port Adelaide to Lyndoch expected to quell the nerves of the 132-man peloton. Val Migliaccio offers his predictions for the stage and overall race honours.
HE is one of three former winners in a talent-stacked BMC team. But Rohan Dennis writes in his exclusive column he expects this year’s big Tour Down Under threat will come from world champion Peter Sagan.
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RICHIE Porte will kick off his ochre jersey defence in Port Adelaide today and has welcomed the pressure coming back on him at this year’s Santos Tour Down Under, if not to defend his title then to win on Old Willunga Hill for a fifth year in a row.
MEET the US Tour Down Under team with an all-women roster – from cyclists to the mechanic.
THE three biggest threats to Simon Gerrans defending the TDU title are predicting an intense few days and a barrage of attacks.
SIXTEEN years after German Erik Zabel came to Adelaide to win stages of the TDU, son Rik has made his WorldTour debut on the same roads.
HE’S been the talk of the peloton and now Cadel Evans has joined the chorus of praise for teen sensation Caleb Ewan.
POLICE have found “inappropriate” images on one of two hidden cameras found inside portable toilets at the Tour Down Under village.
A whopping 17,000-strong crowd is expected at tonights’ Tourrific Prospect street party, a huge celebration of the Tour Down Under.
REECE Homfray and Val Migliaccio take a look at what’s happening on the road and off in the build-up to the Santos Tour Down Under.
ROAD closures in the city associated with the Tour Down Under caused long traffic delays this morning and are expected to do so throughout the week.
CADEL Evans won’t make a call on his future until after this year’s Giro d’Italia but his ambitions suggest he is far from a spent force.
CADEL Evans will make a decision whether to race on or retire in the wake of his mid-year Giro d’Italia campaign.
Cyclists and tour organisers have urged spectators to flock to the Tour Down Under’s first stage in the Barossa to support the fire-hit community.
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